Sliced Quotations

The best meal I've had was in Tavarua, an island in Fiji. It was just before sunset. A bunch of guys had just caught all this yellow fin tuna; they literally brought this huge wooden table down to the sand, pulled the tuna from the boat, dropped it on top of the table, pulled the skin off and sliced the tuna up.

We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.

The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough.

When I was at Babbo, I was covered in scars and scabs and burned bits - melted hair, ribbed burns I got reaching across the top of a hot skillet... I sliced off the tip of my finger. I cleaved my forehead - a deep, ugly wound. Luckily, it regenerated.

On a number of occasions, he sliced people down. The tribe's lawyers were not able to shake my testimony.

Most people only use their griddles for pancakes, but you can sear vegetables like sliced zucchini or mushrooms, thinly sliced meats like chicken or pork, or thinly sliced fish or squid.

Of course, eating broccoli raw, nutritionally and aesthetically speaking, is no doubt the best way of all. Raw broccoli makes a delectable salad when sliced into thin strips on a mandolin, marinated in lemon-mustard vinaigrette, then tossed with toasted pecans or hazelnuts, halved cherry tomatoes, and fresh minced basil.

One of my favorites is chilaquiles. It's corn tortilla chips in a simple, brothy tomato sauce with a little chile for heat. It's wonderfully homey. It has irresistible crispy bits and I love to eat it. And you can play around with it - add chicken, sliced red onions, or all these different things that can easily dress it up.

If we'd gotten a lot of money, we would have spent it. We would have ended up with a high cost structure. What seemed like small-town then has turned out to be the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I love country music so much. I love all kinds of music. But when it comes down to it, I'm from East Tennessee, and country melodies and country songs have always just sliced me in the heart.

He may be the next Mordecai Jones or he may be the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I always bring a starting mentality to the game, and I always try to do the things I need to do to be ready. A win and 100 yards, that's the best thing since sliced bread.

I thought this was the greatest job since sliced bread. I worked with some great people and I thought I had the support of the board, but I guess I was wrong.

The aim is to implement new technologies for added efficiency, not just for their own sake, or because they are the greatest wonder since sliced bread.

The expectations were that we were going to be the best thing since sliced bread. I had three starters back from a team that was 25-2.

We wouldn't miss this. This is the best thing since sliced bread.

We just had to get the margin sliced before the half, and we did some good things. When Tony hit that big 3 and cut the lead to five, that was huge for us.

People come here to work, ... sliced the data really thin.

Some people will say this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Others will say you can call it a fee all you want but you're taxing me more.

That sliced off about a half a percentage point in growth.

It's a breath of different air because creative input didn't come from members of Vinyl. The Rondo Brothers came in and just mutated a bunch of our songs. They affected it with dub, tempo, pulled instruments in and out of the mix, sliced and diced, reassembled, and in some cases, giving the song an entirely different feel.

Its all wrong, ... Lots of little computers are a terrible idea, you can't see the big picture because it's been you know, sliced and diced and it's stored in so many different locations. We've fragmented this information. It's impossible to know what's going on.

It's become quite easy. . . . You can buy these lists of phone numbers and have them sliced any way you like.

It's tough to simulate her quickness in practice. She's so quick, and we're not real quick. She sliced and diced us inside.

I've had my face sliced open one day. Stunt man went one way, and I went the same way and had a few stitches.

Sliced bread is only as good as the peanut butter and jelly on top of it.

improvisation is about finding your own voice. When you prepare a dish, even if you make the same one just moments later, the rabbit loin will be sliced a little bit differently, or the composition will be slightly different.

I'm uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme... to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread.

I often want things to make definite statements. If I order onions sliced thinly on my hamburger, I don't want them to come out sort of medium. But that doesn't mean it's a reasonable desire, in all things.

The girl she was playing really likes the ball in her strike zone. So Sara just kind of sliced it and hit some high balls to mix it up and get her out of position.